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(2021) Phänomenologische Forschungen – Neue Folge 2021 (2).
La Gestalt d'autrui
Note sur l'étendu de l'influence de la Gestaltpsychologie chez Merleau-Ponty
Maxime Doyon
pp. 159-178
The recognition of a meaningful sensory foundation of perception is central to Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. If some commentators do not hesitate to see in the notion of perceptual Gestalt a notion applicable to all domains of being, it is not a priori easy to see how it must be conceived in the more specific context of the perception of others (autrui). However, Merleau-Ponty is very clear on this point: all perception manifests itself in the form of a Gestalt, including the perception of other people. The ambition of this short study is to spell out in rough strokes how this injunction should be heard and thus to explain how others manifest themselves as Gestalts to perceptual consciousness.
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Doyon, M. (2021). La Gestalt d'autrui: Note sur l'étendu de l'influence de la Gestaltpsychologie chez Merleau-Ponty. Phänomenologische Forschungen – Neue Folge 2021 (2), pp. 159-178.
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